NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE AND NEW EDITION PAPERBACK! In Leonard Wibberley's classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare war on the United States and lose to get foreign aid - but things don't go according to plan. The Mouse That Roared was made into a successful feature film starring Peter Sellers. Books in The Grand Fenwick Series: Books 2 through 5 are best read after The Mouse That Roared , but all of the books can be read and enjoyed at any point in the series. Book 1: The Mouse That Roared Book 2: The Mouse On The Moon Book 3: The Mouse On Wall Street Book 4: The Mouse That Saved The West Book 5: Beware Of The Mouse (A Grand Fenwick Series Prequel) ***All five books now also available in a Kindle series bundle-- The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set (Books 1-5)*** "A forgotten classic." -- Amazon Review "Its preposterous story is diverting. Its gentle satire of international folly and suicidal national policies keeps it close to the realities of a paranoiac world... It is an ingenious story, filled with neat twists and appropriate developments." -- The New York Times "As funny as it is charming." -- The New York Times "Along with his beautifully cockeyed humor, his lovely faculty for needlesharp, ironic jabs delivered where they'll do the most good, and his nice talent for storytelling, Wibberley has serious things to suggest and he suggests them admirably." - San Francisco Chronicle "Ingenious." - Christian Science Monitor "Fantastic, uproarious farce ... Taken as a plea for sanity in an era that often makes no sense Whatsoever, The Mouse That Roared has a lot for readers to ponder." - Saturday Review "An enchanting performance. Wibberley has further polished his sound and pleasant style, whose unruffled simplicity points up the humor and contributes a good deal of our entranced suspension of disbelief." - New York Herald Tribune "It's preposterous story is diverting. Its gentle satire of international folly and suicidal national policies keeps it close to the realities of a paranoiac world... It is an ingenious story, filled with neat twists and appropriate developments." -- New York Times To download a FREE 22-minute MP3 audio file of Leonard Wibberley reading his whimsically humorous Thanksgiving poem for children-- The Ballad of the Pilgrim Cat , visit his website at: bit.ly/PilgrimKat Leonard Wibberley was born in Dublin Ireland, in 1915. He was the sixth child of a schoolteacher and an agricultural scientist. When he was nine, his family moved to London. Seven years later, when his father died, he went to work as a stockroom apprentice for a publisher and later became a reporter. After various jobs, he came to the United States in 1943 and engaged in newspaper work for ten years. While working for the Los Angeles Times, he published his first work, The King's Beard . Three years later he published his most successful book, The Mouse That Roared , which was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post , and later made into a classic film starring Peter Sellers. Wibberley lived in Hermosa Beach from 1949 until his death in 1983. He wrote over 100 books and 100's of newspaper articles. He was also an adventurer, who enjoyed traveling, scuba diving, ocean sailing, and road racing. Leonard also wrote mysteries, juvenile fiction, historical novels, and non-fiction under the pen names Leonard Holton, Patrick O'Connor, and Christopher Webb. Sign up for his monthly newsletter at bit.ly/LeonardNews to receive columns written by Leonard Wibberley that were syndicated by newspapers nationally over his lifetime. You will also receive news of the upcoming releases of the ebook editions of his many novels, including his Father Bredder mystery series. To read more about Leonard and his life, check out his biography on Amazon: A MOUSE THAT ROARED: The Life and Writings of Leonard Wibberley by Dennis M. Duffy.